Curriculum Vitae - Dombalagian (2019-08-12).pdf Onnig H. Dombalagian
- George Denègre Professor of Law
- Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
- odombala@tulane.edu
- Weinmann Hall, Room 210B
- 504-865-5968
Education
- JD, cum laude, 1995, Harvard Law School
- AB in computer science, summa cum laude, 1992, Harvard College
Biography
Onnig Dombalagian specializes in U.S. and international regulation of securities and derivatives markets and the relationship of federal and state law in the governance of public companies.
Professor Dombalagian joined the Tulane Law School faculty in 2003 and currently serves as vice dean for academic affairs. He previously served as an attorney fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as an associate in Cleary Gottlieb's Washington D.C. office for five years. Professor Dombalagian clerked for the Hon. J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upon graduating from law school.
Professor Dombalagian has served as a member of FINRA's National Adjudicatory Council and currently serves as an arbitrator with FINRA Dispute Resolution.
He received the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 and was a visiting professor at the American University of Armenia in 2000.
Selected Publications
Chasing the Tape: Information Law and Policy in Capital Markets, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2015
"Preserving Human Agency in Automated Compliance," 10 Brooklyn J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. (2016) (invited symposium contribution)
"Substance and Semblance in Investor Protection," 40 J. Corp. L. 599 (2015)
"Principles for Publicness," 67 Fla. L. Rev. 649 (2015) (reprinted in the Securities Law Review)